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For those who like to brings their children to fastfood outlet instead of playground read these !

Here are the five worst food which may have link with cancer :

• Hot dogs: The Cancer Prevention Coalition recommends that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of cancer. If you must have your hot dog fix, look for those without sodium nitrite listed among the ingredients.
  
• Processed meats and bacon: These meats almost always contain the same sodium nitrite found in hot dogs. You can find some without nitrites, but you'll have to look for them in natural grocers or health food stores. Bacon is also high in saturated fat, which contributes to the risk of cancers, including breast cancer. Limiting your consumption of processed meats and saturated fats also benefits the heart.
  
• Doughnuts: Doughnuts contain hydrogenated oils, white flour, sugar, and acrylamides. Essentially, they're one of the worst cancer foods you can possibly eat. Reader's Digest calls doughnuts "disastrous" as a breakfast food, and many experts agree it's probably one of the worst ways to start the day.
  
• French fries: Fries are made with hydrogenated oil and fried at high temperatures. Some chains even add sugar to their fry recipe to make them even more irresistible. Not only do they clog your arteries with saturated fat and trans fat, they also contain acrylamides. They should be called "cancer fries," not French fries.
  
• Chips / crackers / cookies: These generally contain white flour and sugar as well as trans fats, but it's not enough to simply look for these ingredients on the label; you have to actually "decode" the ingredients list that food manufacturers use to deceive consumers. They do this by hiding ingredients (such as hiding MSG in yeast extract, or by fiddling with serving sizes so they can claim the food is trans fat free, even when it contains trans fats (the new Girl Scout cookies use this trick).

Besides avoiding these foods, what else can consumers do to reduce their risk of cancer? The main things are simple: Eat unprocessed foods and base your diet largely on plants. Consume foods that have omega-3 fats and other essential fatty acids. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables; many common ones have known cancer-fighting properties. Get regular vigorous exercise, since tumors cannot thrive in highly oxygenated environments. Keep your blood sugar stable to avoid being an all-you-can-eat buffet for cancer cells.

Eat foods high in natural vitamin C, a nutrient that deters the conversion of nitrite into nitrosamine and promotes healthy immune function. Make sure you get adequate amounts of cancer-fighting vitamin D through exposure to sunlight -- about 10 to 15 minutes each day if you have fair skin, or ten times as long if you have dark skin pigmentation. Stay well hydrated to ensure that your body rids itself of toxins. Avoid smoking and don't use conventional fragrance, cosmetics and personal care products -- virtually all of them contain cancer-causing chemicals.

Source : http://www.newstarget.com/021808.html

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A dramatic rise in the numbers of obese children and their deaths from heart disease has been predicted in two new reports.
Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine from the US and Denmark say that overweight children have more heart problems in later life and there will be more of them in the future.
The Danish study, which tracked more than 250,000 school children in Copenhagen from 1930 to 1976, found overweight boys in particular grew up to have more heart problems.
The heavier they were as youngsters, particularly entering their teens, the greater the risk. For example, a 13-year-old boy who was 25lbs above the average weight was found to be 33% more likely than a child of normal weight to have a heart attack or some other problem caused by coronary heart disease (CHD) by age 60.
The finding "suggests that more children than ever before are facing increased risks of CHD in adulthood," said the team led by Jennifer Baker of the Centre for Health and Society in Copenhagen.
The second study said that of the 17% of boys and 16% of girls in the United States now overweight a quarter of the boys are obese, and that number is expected to increase to 30 to 37 per cent by 2020, when they turn 35.
For females in that group, 32% of whom now are obese, the ratio will rise to 34 to 44% according to that research team, led by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California, San Francisco.
That will lead to more heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure at a younger age, and even aggressive treatment will not be able to stem the trend, they reported.
By 2035, the prevalence of heart disease will have increased by 5 to 16%, they estimated.
"Barring a major advance in the treatment of either excessive weight gain itself or its associated alterations in blood pressure, lipid levels and glucose metabolism, current adolescent overweight will have a substantial effect on public health far into the future," they concluded.

source : yahoo news

Preschool education..... ?

Kebanyakan ibubapa dibandar ni rata-rata menghantar anak-anak masing-masing ke sekolah prechool seawal 4 tahun. Adakah ianya benar-benar perlu. Well ... susah nak cakap kerana tiada kajian specifik telah dilakukan dimalaysia. Ukuran menggunakan UPSR mungkin tidak tepat walaupun setiap tahun peratusan keputusan peperiksaan adalah lebih baik di bandar berbanding dengan kawasan luar bandar. Faktor lain mungkin perlu diambil kira seperti .... suasana luarbandar yang dibelenggu oleh kekurangan infrastruktur dan fianacial capabilities ibubapa. Ketidak selesaan pembelajaran disebabkan sekolah yang tidak secanggih mana. Walaupun berbagai-bagai smart school di Mlaysia tetapi silibus sekolah rendah tidak begitu cepat berubah. Kaedah KUMON, SMART READER etc tidak ada tempat di sistem persekolah awam. Are all those kids who have had their early preschooler actuall performed well in comparison to those who were not? Well opinion is a matter of opinion unless there were study done to prove it then only we can make a good remark.